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While airport codes used to be something you’d only see on your boarding pass and luggage tags, nowadays, the three letters are absolutely everywhere. You can rep your home city with phone cases, décor, t-shirts… I’ve even seen airport code shoelaces. But have you ever stopped to wonder how those three letters were chosen, or why we need them in the first place? With airport codes hitting the headlines as Palm Beach International Airport changes to DJT following its renaming after current president Donald J. Trump, we thought it was time for a deep dive… What is an airport code,…
The responses reveal a level of confidence that exceeded expectations. An overwhelming 94 percent express optimism about their company’s prospects. The industry also treats this as a lasting reset rather than a temporary challenge. 76 percent expect the effects of the Hormuz crisis on global shipping to outlast six months, and opinion splits almost in half on whether this is the sector’s most serious crisis of the past 50 years, which covers the oil shocks, the tanker war, the global financial crisis and Covid-19. One phrase from our interviews captures the mindset behind optimism: “Shipping keeps working even when the…
Published on 24/08/2026 – 7:11 GMT+2 Indian police used excessive force, including electric shock devices and pellet guns, against youth-led protests that forced the education minister to resign last month, Amnesty International said on Monday. A report from the rights’ group clashes with the police account that force was used only after protesters turned violent, and comes after India’s Supreme Court set up a panel on Thursday to investigate violence by both police and demonstrators. Demonstrations in the capital New Delhi, triggered by the leak of the national medical entrance test, turned violent on 20 July when thousands of protesters…
We’re back! And so are Ukraine’s key backers. On the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union, leaders meet in Kyiv this Monday to discuss new pledges of support for the country. On the podcast, Zoya Sheftalovich and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Nick Vinocur discuss what support Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is looking to secure from the Coalition of the Willing ahead of another difficult winter. Next we look at elections in the state of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, where the far-right Alternative for Germany is on course for a sweeping victory. If it wins an outright majority, its…
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham will visit Ukraine on Monday on his first international visit since taking office last month. The Labour Party leader’s visit comes as he announced that the United Kingdom will help support Kyiv with its domestic production of long-range missiles. The UK has “agreed that defence firm MBDA can release classified information on Brtish-made components for the long-range missile, SCALP, to establish local assembly lines in Ukraine,” a statement said. The decision to release the classified information on the missile, which uses both British and French technology, would allow France and Ukraine to move forward with…
A landslide at a waste site in Guinea early on Sunday has killed 30 people and injured several others after heavy rains caused a mound of rubbish to collapse, government officials reported. The landslide buried nearby tens and shacks and destroyed several homes as rescuers and excavators were searching through the debris at the collapsed landfill as part of a search-and-rescue operation. At least six other people were seriously injured. “Significant material and human resources have been deployed to search for any people who may still be buried, to rescue the victims and to recover the bodies,” a statement by…
Die Sommerpause ist vorbei und Kanzler Friedrich Merz blickt entscheidenden Wochen entgegen. Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert, wie gefährlich seine schlechten Umfragewerte und die anstehenden Ost-Wahlen für die gesamte Koalition werden könnten. Pünktlich zum ukrainischen Unabhängigkeitstag überrascht der britische Premier Andy Burnham mit der Freigabe von Storm-Shadow-Marschflugkörpern. Hans von der Burchard ordnet ein, warum dieses Vorpreschen Merz beim ewigen Streitthema Taurus in Bedrängnis bringt. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview reagiert der ukrainische Botschafter Oleksii Makeiev gelassen auf Wladimir Putins aktuelle Drohungen. Er fordert, Moskaus Einschüchterungen nicht nachzugeben, und hofft auf frischen Verhandlungsdruck durch die erwarteten US-Unterhändler. Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es jeden Morgen…
The eVisa database keeps a record of a person’s full name, date of birth, nationality, and a facial photograph. But these traits are by definition often a very close match for identical twins, including Webb, whose name is similar to that of her sister. Many such cases Monique Hawkins, acting CEO of the3million, which campaigns for the rights of EU citizens living in the U.K., said problems with the eVisa system sometimes left people unable to prove their identity when they needed it most. “We have seen many cases where someone else’s immigration status is entangled with another person’s eVisa…
The White House has in recent hours received the Supreme Court’s green light for the 400-million-dollar ballroom with which Donald Trump wants to replace the traditional East Wing of the official residence of the president of the United States. While the president on Saturday announced the overall cost of the project, the man directly overseeing it, the director of the White House Management and Administration, Joshua Fisher, has provided all the details according to US broadcaster CBS. (source in Italian) Among those details is that the colonnade of the new ballroom will be sculpted “by some of the greatest artists…
“It’s really important that we consider them together,” Edwards says of social care and assisted dying. “I don’t think that there is a reason to delay” changing the law, she argues, highlighting £125 million provided by Starmer’s government for adult and children’s hospices. (A Public Accounts Committee report said this one-off funding did not directly pay for service delivery or solve financial problems facing the sector.) Edwards’ bill has a four-year implementation period. That means if it becomes law next year, assisted dying wouldn’t be permitted until 2031. She believes the two systems can work on a “dual track” and…